Get to work at 10 AM. The Company Head Editor (CHE) comes to talk to the Story Producer (SP). SP arrives a little late, usually. CHE (to SP): Your editor won’t be back for the rest of the show. Me: I can edit. CHE ignores me. Continues talking to SP. CHE: So I’m going to …
Tag Archive: Story Asst
Oct 05 2009
First Act: Complete
First acts are probably the easiest. And I write short anyway. This one clocks in at exactly 22 pages, written in just over a week. 9 days coming out to over 2 pages a day, though that’s certainly not how it was written. 12 last weekend, 10 this weekend. Nothing like my 15 page a …
Sep 28 2009
First Day As Story Assistant; Argument with Apparently Illiterate Religious Types
I just had to sign a confidentiality agreement which says I can’t reveal the nature and details of my employment. Does that mean I can’t tell people what I do? Like, if I was an editor on Toddlers and Tiaras, would I have to be like, “I work on a show in some capacity, that’s …
Sep 28 2009
Busy Weekend; Bad day for a Migraine
Friday was crazy. I got asked to write a pilot by a web producer, to write a polished first act of a feature for a manager, to edit a short, to add something to a reel, and that it’s possible that I will be promoted to Assistant Editor in January and that I will be …
Sep 21 2009
A portrait in how it is the little things that make a difference
I have been working at this company for just shy of one year. I just got my first promotion from the depths of hell aka logging. Logging is basically transcription. It’s a potentially useful service, in that you have people who have seen all of the reality footage that a show shoots. They write what …
Sep 19 2009
Darn copyright laws
They’ve already taken down that The Soup/Naughty Kitchen clip apparently. I can see it because it’s mine but apparently no one else can. Boo. http://kanyelicious.appspot.com/http://ashleyfmiller.wordpress.com I officially have my own cubicle at work and that is very exciting. Weird working for a place for 11 months without ever having your own space. I will now …
Sep 17 2009
Story Assistant
Yesterday was a strange up and down day. My job is in a state of change, and I’m not quite sure what the outcome will be. It seems likely that I will be promoted to Story Assistant, which would be fantastic. That’s a sort of cross between editing and writing assistant, which is rather perfect …
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Ashley's co-blogger is a third year student at Northwestern University who runs on coffee and snark. . At some point, she'd like to make people sit on couches and tell her about their feelings, but right now she writes in different places around the internet and makes silly faces when she doesn't know what to say. She's the president of her local Secular Student Alliance affiliate, and she is on the Secular Woman speakers bureau. Opinions do not necessarily reflect those of the Secular Student Alliance
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